Word: pentecostalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Swaggart played sexual inquisitor when moral accusations arose against Bakker and Swaggart's Louisiana rival Marvin Gorman, both ministers in Swaggart's Pentecostalist denomination, the Assemblies of God. When each was defrocked, he proclaimed good riddance...
...would come to the notice of Gorman, the pastor of a humble church in a warehouse located only four miles away. Gorman had been reduced to this lowly estate because of the Assemblies, defrocking for adultery, which Swaggart had engineered. Before that, Gorman had been the toast of Pentecostalist New Orleans...
...renovated PTL cannot afford to take any chances with their images. As the Bakkers' escapades showed, the sins of one preacher will be laid upon another. Swaggart's downfall will add to the broad-brush contempt that many are heaping on the evangelical and Pentecostalist religions, even though the video brigade is but a small part of these movements. It was ironical that a Broadway-bound play, based on Elmer Gantry, opened in Washington...
...great folk faith, is usually as plain and decent as a clapboard chapel, but on occasion it can turn as raucous and disorderly as a frontier camp meeting. Over the past two weeks sweet order has fled, seemingly overwhelmed by hot words and rackety confusion. Perhaps not since famed Pentecostalist Preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was accused of faking her own kidnaping in the Roaring Twenties has the nation witnessed a spectacle to compare with the lurid adultery-and-hush-money scandal that has forced a husband-and-wife team of televangelists, Jim and Tammy Bakker, to abandon their multimillion-dollar...
...crowd pleaser onstage was Jimmy Swaggart, 51, the flashy Louisiana Pentecostalist who ranks as one of the top TV evangelists in the U.S. In recent years Swaggart has built a surprisingly large and significant following abroad, especially in Latin America. In January he packed the 80,000-seat National Stadium in Santiago, Chile. Last week he wound up a swing through the Central American nations of El Salvador and Costa Rica, and later this year will visit Brazil, Uruguay, Panama and Honduras...